How alf_c9 started their logo design journey

Company name

Cloud 9 Software

Overview

Around the world and in every neighbourhood, there is urgent need for a broadly available and pragmatic solution to an increasingly critical issue: the ability to access timely, relevant and accurate patient data in a simple and secure way.

Typically, the software systems used by doctors and hospitals are very old fashioned and closed. Cloud9 Software hopes to radically improve the situation by introducing our innovative new cloud-based system. This will set patient information free from their current silos and leverage the power of the internet to genuinely improve people's lives.

Cloud9 Software sprang bolt by bolt, code by code with the very best our people have to offer: ingenuity, integrity, optimism and the belief that the finest things are thoughtfully made, not the most expensive.

Cloud9 invites you to join us as we explore new horizons of design and architecture with a mission to make e-Health a practical tool for clinicians to deliver improved patient outcomes.

Tell us a bit about who you are and the people you reach

Cloud9 offers healthcare organisations of all sizes innovative ways to empower caregivers to care for patients more effectively.

Information is power. By breaking down the barriers to timely, accurate information, Cloud9 empowers healthcare providers. Cloud9 has made the leap to provide all organisations with the same technology that was once the exclusive domain of governments running made available to national health programs or regional health communities.

The ultimate beneficiary will be patients, who will benefit from safer and more effective healthcare. Albeit from their family physician, doctors or hospital.

Requirements

Let your creative juices flow by creating a logo for an innovative new health IT company

We're looking for a logo which will simply communicate our ambition - to join doctors and other healthcare providers together in a safe and secure community, where life-saving information about patients can be shared quickly and easily.

The logo will be used as part of our identity, on our products and our web site, business cards, etc.

We'd like to see a combination of a logo and text which convey's the following ideas:
1. Simplicity
2. Streamlined
3. Integrity / Trustworthy
4. Reliable
5. Natural / Organic
6. Modern / Next Generation Technology

Feel free to experiment with colours and styles. Our feeling is that something blue & white to convey the 'cloud' idea will work well. Similarly, we are looking for a logo or symbol to help convey the sense of community we're trying to build.

We'd rather not see designs that include a very dominant 'cloud' graphic - let's not be predicable!

For a real challenge, check out the attached file called Stethoscope. How about including the stethoscope in the design of the 'cloud' or '9' pieces. For instance, you could have a cloud comprised of a group of interconnected stethoscopes (that's what I call a real community of doctors!). Be bold. Give it a go and see what you come up with!